A walk-through for the Twitter streaming API by Jason Baldridge.
From the post:
Analyzing tweets is all the rage, and if you are new to the game you want to know how to get them programmatically. There are many ways to do this, but a great start is to use the Twitter streaming API, a RESTful service that allows you to pull tweets in real time based on criteria you specify. For most people, this will mean having access to the spritzer, which provides only a very small percentage of all the tweets going through Twitter at any given moment. For access to more, you need to have a special relationship with Twitter or pay Twitter or an affiliate like Gnip.
This post provides a basic walk-through for using the Twitter streaming API. You can get all of this based on the documentation provided by Twitter, but this will be slightly easier going for those new to such services. (This post is mainly geared for the first phase of the course project for students in my Applied Natural Language Processing class this semester.)
You need to have a Twitter account to do this walk-through, so obtain one now if you don’t have one already.
Basics of obtaining tweets from the Twitter stream.
I mention it as an active data source that may find its way into your topic map.